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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smitherman, Geneva, 1940- Talkin and testifyin. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977 (OCoLC)568022354 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Geneva Smitherman |
ISBN: | 0395253551 9780395253557 |
OCLC Number: | 2911934 |
Description: | 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Chapter 1-From Africa to the New World and Into the Space Age -- Chapter 2-"It's Bees Dat Way Sometime" -- Chapter 3-Black Semantics -- Chapter 4-"How I Got Ovuh" -- Chapter 5-"The Forms of things Unknown" -- Chapter 6-Where It's at -- Chapter 7-Where Do We go From Here? T.C.B.! -- Appendix A-Some Well-Known Black Proverbs and Sayings -- Appendix B-Get Down Exercise On Black English Sounds -- Appendix C-Black Semantics-A Selected Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Responsibility: | Geneva Smitherman. |
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